Ka'Cit's Haven (Riv’s Sanctuary #3)

For a few minutes, there was nothing.

No movement. Nothing.

The only thing that told her she wasn’t frozen in time was the lights blinking on the large structure outside the ship.

That’s when she saw movement.

Her heart thumped in her chest, skipping a beat.

An intruder.

There was someone outside the…

But when the alien turned and she saw his face, her terror turned into confusion.

“Ka’Cit?”

Nia moved closer to the view screen.

Ka’Cit was in a dark spacesuit—one of those that she’d seen hanging on the interior of the shuttle no doubt—and he was looking back at her.

He’d had to remove his mask before putting on the spacesuit and he space walked straight to the view screen, looking in as if to check if she was all right.

“What are you doing out there?!”

No answer, of course, and she had no choice but to watch him float away to the huge metal structure the ship had stopped beside.

The sheer size of the thing was even more pronounced when he drew closer to it.

The structure didn’t seem far from the ship, but it was difficult to judge the distance.

That made her heart lodge in her throat.

Just seeing him floating in the nothingness that was space unlocked a fear she never knew she had.

That’s when she saw the tether attached to the back of his suit.

Still…

Was he fucking crazy?

What the hell was he doing?

His feet landed on one of the metal pins and he turned to glance back at her once more.

Nia’s palm flattened over her mouth as she watched him turn and walk along the pin, arms outstretched on both sides to balance.

When he reached the central part of the structure, he dug into the pocket of his suit and she could barely make out the little square device in his hand.

Then he got to work. It seemed he had other tools in his pockets too because he somehow opened a panel on the huge metal structure.

Nia craned her neck to see what he was doing but between his spacesuit and the fact she couldn’t see around him, she could only guess his intent.

He was working on something and his movements suggested he was interacting with buttons within the thing.

Her brows furrowed as she watched him.

Just what was he doing?